Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1997, 12:48 PM CDT for Harris County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1997, 12:48 PM CDT (17:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1997, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harris County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1995 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 6, 9:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 9:22 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | San Jacinto, Trinity | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 2:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.